skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's simple. Science says "probe it, or GFTO". Thus, religion and pseudoscience is out today, and for good.
We are not children believing on monsters under the bed anymore.
Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself
> Based on my past experiences, I'd be happy to take an even money bet that more than 95% of organizations that go distributed for performance reasons actually caused themselves more problems than they solved.

Oh, I'm absolutely positive you're right! And as you know, even in distributed architectures there's a huge range of solutions from "let's do these n reasonably simple things" to "let's just rebuild our system to solve every conceivable future problem". I don't know of a scenario where the latter has ever worked.
The Internet is not as redundant as you might think, and in fact there is less spare capacity to go around as a result of the pandemic (a lot more time spent streaming and on video chats by a larger number of people). Internet routing is also non-trivial (convergence has not been reached in years), and when a major link goes down it can take time for routes to stabilize. Also keep in mind that the Internet itself was not down for most people who were affected by this; rather, connectivity between users and various services was affected. So people could have continued torrenting, but their Zoom sessions would get dropped because connectivity to some data center was impacted.
Firefox was in fact in a stronger position before Google turned Chrome into shovelware, yes.
They're blocked for me where ever I can block them, just because I got sick of innocently following a link and being ambushed by Medium and their hassle. Or 'friction', to euphemize.
I am expecting light pollution to follow us there also
The Egghead Gap
I think the price dropped though. I was furious until I saw a lower bill. I also got a speed increase to 1.2gbps

I still wish I had other options in my area (nh)
UK government backs birth control for grey squirrels
Briefly going through their website (sudo.ws) I am seriously wondering why anyone would want to put some of those features in a privilege management tool.
i think so, but i had to upgrade to a docsis 3.0 modem, but told the physical infrastructure in place here cannot exceed 35mbit up. im not even going to pretend to know enough about cable to postulate how possible that is
Mmmm, Reading the title I was expecting they were developing some system that made a super strong exo skeleton with a porous interior just like lobsters, or bones.

They have done nothing like that. Criss cross printed lines?
Adding reinforcement fibers?

That is as old as 3D printing.
No, you have no idea if god exists to begin with. Thus, leave the phantasies out and stick to the real things we are proving today.
You must be joking. Cables are
Color-coded and labeled obsessively.

You should take some time to understand the physical layer of infrastructure. There will always be work to do in meet-me-rooms!
It'd be great to have some more info on the page and examples maybe for people to understand it better as I couldn't figure out how to sync between providers until I saw this comment of yours.

Fantastic product, always seen your posts on HN and signed up a few months ago with a 100GB plan. Been very happy :)
AWS was reporting "connectivity issues with an internet provider" here: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

It did seem to be causing issues for my N Virginia EC2 instances.
The GoodDollar Experiment
Commodities have to be traded as futures because you cannot move commodities instantaneously. So what you do is you write on a piece of paper (its digital today) that you will provide X amount of commodities for price Y in Z days. You can then sell the contract for the total value of the commodities and when the contract is due you just send the commodity to the holder of the contract.
I’ve only had 1 choice, 2 if you count AT&T’s cellular based “home internet”. But it’s a totally different product and very flaky compared to cable or fiber. Even in major cities where there are nominally multiple providers, they often carve up the city into regions where only 2 overlap, and if you rent without being able to install equipment for a WISP you likely have no choice at all.

https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/why-can-i-only-g...
Google open sources Tilt Brush, leaving its future to VR community
Sun Inc. also said "The network is the computer." To which DEC Inc. replied "The network is the network and the computer is the computer. Sorry for all the confusion."
I helped my mom deal with 2 specialty pharmacies for some Parkinson's drugs she was taking. The drugs weren't available from other pharmacies (that CVS runs one of the largest specialty pharmacies can make this confusing, but normal CVS probably don't stock it if the prescription goes to their specialty pharmacy).

They present themselves as helping the patient navigate a complex drug, but in practice this just meant they had a bunch of questions to tick off each time you talked to them. Their outreach and phone tree were both pretty bad, clearly designed for high operator utilization and not customer service.
> Or you can just use pop3 or imap

This is my choice, except that periodically I have to go back to the web interface because searching over IMAP barely works at all. Maybe it's not even implemented and I'm only really searching downloaded mail, I'm not sure.
> It is. Control groups are no-treatment if no approved treatment exists, or current standard of care if there's an approved treatment. That's standard practice.

I've read plenty of pharmaceutical trials where the control was a plain placebo, not the current standard of care, when it not involve a life threatening illness.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00061802

Clearly this antipsychotics trial does not evaluate the drug 's effectiveness against the current standard of care's, but against a placebo's.

> If by "perfect placebo," you mean "no treatment," that's not correct, and is considered unethical.

I mean giving them a drug that lacks an active ingredient but is otherwise not to the lay eye discriminatable from an effective drug.

And that is very much what is done in the case of the antipsychotics medicine I showed. So it's only unethical when human lives be at stake, apparently.
Regulation seems appropriate.
I love all of the work that Mozilla do to make the web a better, more privacy focused place.

A little time tinge of disappointment though, is that the new Firefox for Android doesn't work at all with Lastpass' autofill. I've tried to find bug reports (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/9773) but they don't give me a clear indication as to whether it's being worked on or not. Unfortunately degrades my experience to the point of using other browsers. It doesn't seem like the old Firefox is available via the Play store in the meantime either?

It's probably inevitable when you release a completely new version of something, but the small, missing features immediately become obvious/upsetting!
> You would see two moons in that sky instead of one

Any pictures of this?
This is when you revoke that website's privilege to run arbitrary Turing-complete code in your browser because it didn't use it wisely.
>Memory plays a role in learning. Does it play the biggest role? Let's assume it does. Is learning only memory? I don't think so.

The end result of learning (having learnt) is, I'd say, only memory.

If the memory is of static information or dynamic state (the difference between a file with data and a program's runtime loaded with state) it's still however just memory.

What else would it be?

Sure, the process of learning, on the other hand, can take different forms. Those would be analogous to loading a memory store via different mechanisms.

>Let's say the information is about driving. I can have a driving manual memorized. Can I remember that information about driving? Yes. Have I "learned" driving? No.

Let's say we can distinguish between two types of learnable things.

When it comes to information from the digits of pie or the lyrics of a song, or the periodic table and many other things, having such things memorized is enough for us to say we "learned them".

Your example with driving, however, is not about mere learning some information, but about learning an activity. In your example we can surely say you've learned the contents of the driving manual. That's not the same as learning to drive, but nobody said it is. It is still learning the information within the manual, though.

Now, for learning to drive one would need to learn some/all of the same information (perhaps in another form, simpler, more colloqual, etc), and also the motions involved, how to respond to various road situations, etc. This however is a "loading the memory part".

Isn't the end result the same though? Information (somehow, not really relevant how) stored in the brain of the person that learned to drive (including things like "muscle memory")? The process is not the same as memorizing static information (e.g. a piece of text), but the end result is still a brain that has a new state, similar to an RAM or SSD that has a new state.

See also my point above regarding static vs dynamic memory.
Azure revenue growth of 50% is pretty great.
Somebody, somewhere, is going to get paid a lot of money when they figure out how to stabilize this inefficiency.

If there is a way to insure traditional shorts and the option-sellers against the losses they incur in this sort of situation, those actors are now going to be willing to pay at least a small amount to ensure smooth operation of the markets.

The transients right now (especially their emergent origins!) are interesting in the abstract, but generally antithetical to the efficient flow of capital.
> I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that there’s a slight problem with saying “social networks shouldn’t become paid because some users will leave”.

Facebook was successful because 'everyone' was on Facebook. It was the one place that I would go and find almost everyone I knew, and if I posted something there, all of them would have access to it.

Similarly, I've tried migrating from Twitter to Mastodon. But no one I know uses it, so why bother?

I would pay for Facebook/Twitter, but on the condition that other people are also paying. As soon as people start leaving, there's no much point.
> While DigitalOcean is committed to supporting a free and open internet, based on the history of the content on Parler, their platform would be in violation of our terms of service and they are not welcome on DigitalOcean.
The best answer is "we don't know until we do", so the best thing to do is to throw out any pseudoscience (name it god, budda, UFO's, chemtrails or the Bigfoot) to the trash until there's enough scientifical proof of it.

Everything else is babblery and charlatanery.
Sorry that you don't like my writing style. Next time I will rephrase "have blood on their hands" as: "have committed manslaughter through their wilful negligence in dealing with the pandemic back in March when it was obviously going to start killing people".

Really, I don't think it's hackneyed or shrill to decry so many deaths. Unless you also think memorializing the September 11 terrorist attacks is also hackneyed and shrill.
They are in fact executable!

> Due to the initial exec line in the log files, you can resubmit a job by executing it as a shell command file, i.e. running sh $jobid.

(and many shells have a legacy behavior of running a file as a script if it doesn't start with a #! line.)
>But if sudo were written in Rust, it could have the same level of complexity and not be vulnerable.

This is not true. Complexity breeds bugs, including security bugs, and memory safety doesn't change that. Your example is a good one - here's another: doas once failed to limit the environment variables which are passed to the child process, which could be used to nefariously influence the program running (e.g. with LD_PRELOAD). How would Rust prevent that oversight? It wouldn't.

A simpler program will generally be more secure than a complicated one, no matter what language either is written in. Furthermore, rewriting an established program from one language to another will always introduce more bugs than it fixes, and more severely the more complex the program is. The single best way to improve security is to reduce the attack surface, and the single best way to do that is to reduce the complexity of your system.
Here's a case from 2019:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-216

Drove prices down, bought, drove prices up, sold.

The reported actions of WSB is basically the second half of this with the twist that they think they can use large short positions as leverage to push prices up more.

It's actually a very common, old form of fraud. The question is whether regulators care to enforce the rules. It's what Leonardo Decaprio is guilty of in Wolf of Wallstreet.
Autosetup is used by the Fossil VCS project (written by Richard Hipp, SQLite author)

https://msteveb.github.io/autosetup/articles/fossil-adopts-a...
vanilla JS might be too much to maintain. I have already started working on the Gatsby version and will try and accelerate that.
>I think people under-model just how strange our universe is. Even things like Pi. Why does Pi equal Pi?

Pi is just the ratio between the diameter and all the points to the same distance from another point, in base 10.

As simple as it gets. Circle = infinite points, thus Pi = infinite decimals.

There's no magic.
I'm on Firefox right now. Does anyone Internet browse on Emacs?
Because publishers are producing print content for a past era digitally, or, worse, already feed its bastard adapted to advertisement.

I get netflix for about 10€/month, but a weekly print newspaper (still filled with ads...) wants 30€/month (4 issues...) here, where a lesser digital only costs still 10€/month... They just don't serve the information I would pay for, but that doesn't mean the clickbaity "free" online "content" is a legit business model.

I want sober, on point, timely information on matters of shared/common interest, filtered by journalistic overview, contextualization and reliable sourcing. With the option to subscribe to niche content additions, e.g. art, culture, but of course news shouldn't be a comfort zone only, either. I don't want to co-pay for the clear special interests like the sports/soccer or housing section, at all. And I won't ever pay for opinionated outrage and intellectual masturbation, because nothing else happened or feels like anything at the moment. I don't want some mind-numbing four page zeitgeist piece on cancel culture which starts by making associative yak shaving a storytelling virtue. I want to be briefed in the morning, by my personal intelligence service, like madame president.

Publishers are not struggling, they are throwing a fit over a changing information access reality, for 15 years or something. If they cry just a bit longer now, their economic niche is gonna be completely absorbed by technological answers to the question of "What's going on?".
Independent non-profits trying to fight for individuals in a capitalist-driven society seems to be doomed to fail.
An depressing example; Insulin and how the inventors made sure to make the the process available to anyone;

> The patent would not be used for any other purpose than to prevent the taking out of a patent by other persons. When the details of the method of preparation are published anyone would be free to prepare the extract, but no one could secure a profitable monopoly.

How did that go? 1,000% price increase, accounting for inflation. (US numbers)

Edit: Removed rant-driven generalization and miss-information regarding legal obligations.

Thanks for checking me. I get to upset reading these things.
The most common example I could think of (other than trackers) would be aggregator sites. If the aggregator shows an image that was originally from a destination article or if comments link to a source for some content.
> Edit: new commits on Merkaator!

Yeah![0]

[0] https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/commits/master
If they’re all in use and it’s point to point, might be easier connecting whatever to whatever. Then simultaneously swap line cards around as they get lit up or letting IP do its thing.

Source: I have no idea.
For me that’s Heroku. I just push my app (RoR) and done. I’ve actually moved it once to k8s for a few months and decided to move it back after I understood how easy heroku made the opa side of the business.

Note: it’s a side project, 50 business users, $5k annual revenue, 4h per month as target for the time spent on customer support, admin and maintenance. So it’s both easy to pay heroku and important for me to not spend too much time on Ops.
> they do not take into consideration that other things also cause autism

Fortunately, we have figured out how to tease out the influence of a single variable among many: test vs. control groups. If the sample size is large enough, most variables will average out to have the same effect in both groups.
It's been established that Twitter will ban people because of their views. Now we're just debating where their lines are.
You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you. (To be more specific, politics cares about what it hasn't stolen from you yet.)
Such great highlights from Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity woven into an enjoyable narrative. I had missed the noctilucent clouds and transit of Phobos. Now stoked for Perseverance on Feb 18th.
It set off the flamewar detector. We monitor that list and eventually cancel the penalty for threads that aren't actual flamewars, but it takes a while. If anyone wants to make it faster, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is usually a forcing function.

Edit: Also, posts without URLs get a downweight by default. I've turned that off too, and merged the other threads into this one, since it was the first one.
God is a Perl developer and it used CPAN to build the universe, with duct tape :p.
Agreed.

My last employer had been on the same GH tier for over 6 years or something like that, and was on a much older tier.

It lacked some of the new features, but the price-point was right for our team size, and we weren't yet at the point where the newer features (ci/cd stuff like Actions) were worth the cost hike.

We were planning on switching tiers to get the new features, which is exactly what you described. Let those who want the new things pay for them if/when they decide to make the switch.
There's a corresponding Ubuntu security notice: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4705-1
I remember Starry Night having the option to see the night sky from different planets. You know, in case you wanted to track the stars with a telescope, on Mars.
> Merkaartor is pretty old

To be honest, JOSM is older than Merkaartor:

- JOSM v1.0 was released on January 22, 2006.

- Merkaartor v0.00 was released on October 17, 2006.

> and [Merkaartor] not really actively maintained.

It is NOT true! See latest commits in Merkaartor repo on GitHub.[0]

[0] https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/commits/master
Oh man, 9:30 is my "this is inhumanely early" time. I usually get up around noon. Having kids will either be terrible or super easy, as I can keep the kid until 6 am, while my wife sleeps, and then we can switch shifts.
My map is five years old. What can I do to get it updated?
Why GlacierMD Actually Wasted $40k on a “Fantastic" Startup Idea
My favorite part of Plex is that it doesn't touch my files but can scan and organize, add missing metadata, album covers, etc. I have a lot of media so this is huge.

Plex has been the best $120 or so that I've ever spent and I'm not kidding. It's a load off to not worry about managing media and adding music to various devices all the time.

How well does jellyfish seamlessly do these things?
> This is a monumental deal breaker for the majority of people.

I highly doubt that a laptop not supporting >1080p on the monitor is considered a 'monumental deal breaker for the majority of people'.

1080p is just fine for laptops.

the screen on the Serval WS is 144hz, as well, which is much higher refresh-rate than most HiDpi displays.
Hee hee.

I wish I could put "sarcasm" label in a tooltip or something. It would still annoy people to have to mouse over to reveal the tip (I still win) but my intent would at least be explicit (everyone else wins).
This is true and not just true of the stock market. It's true of the economy as a whole. The stock market is just a manifestation of a specific part of the economy.

If inflation is low you can do the dumbest things imaginable and as long as you make your money back you can keep doing the dumb thing over and over again.

If there was decent inflation you would have to have at least some expectation of a future gain because inflation and by extension the increased interest rates would cause your net 0 investments to be a net loss.
Just from personal experience, if they can build gmail on top of a database (bigtable) having neither indexes nor consistency, then probably it will also be suitable for the purposes of my far smaller, much less demanding products.

On the other hand I've seen, and am currently suffering through, products that have desperate performance problems with trivial amounts (tens of GB) of data in relational databases with indexes aplenty.
Maybe. Or a precursor/knockoff. This was like 15 years ago..
MNT Reform is the only "Linux laptop" I'm aware of that is designed from scratch and isn't based on common OEM hardware. I'm sure System76 offers value to their customers though. I'm personally not too interested in their offerings but it's good to see they're still around. And growing, it appears from a distance.
Well let's say a company is trading at 1 dollar per share with a billion shares outstanding. And some short-sellers are shorting it believing it is worth almost nothing. Now a bunch of traders buy up shares, sending it to $20, at which point the company dilutes by 10% by selling 100 million shares. All of a sudden the company has 2 billion in cash, and even with a complete collapse, it will still be worth more than the price at which the short-sellers shorted.
Well there are a couple of reasons one might not, but the biggest one is that given people with a wide range of experience in both individual contributor and management roles it is often difficult to figure out how to match the skillset with the role. Send me an email (profile has it) and I'll send you a resume you can dump into the ATS system to see if anyone thinks I'd be a good fit. (And no, I don't send my resume to head hunters to shop around).

The second challenge is that I am in a position to be reasonably frank when the biggest threat one can hold over me is to be fired. I have found that some managers don't appreciate employees for whom their "hire/fire power" over them doesn't give them any leverage. This combined with a general perception that I am a good manager, means that I tend to develop a followship whether or not I'm in a leadership role. This can lead to "issues" no matter how hard I try to prevent them.
It's baffling to me that Reddit doesn't have a way to block users unless they actually message you. It's possible - there's even a Javascript hack to add block buttons[1] - so I assume there's some weird reason behind this (is it only available in a premium version)? Anyway I agree with the article that "personal blocking/filter tools" are shockingly poor or even lacking completely on every social media platform I've used. It badly needs innovation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/3nvrdi/deleting_...
The odd thing about this situation though is the geographic location of Brooklyn: on an island. Why would a significant amount of traffic from outside Long Island be going across the harbor to Brooklyn, especially given all the major switching facilities in Manhattan (closer to shore).
You can customize and hide all of that though. Mine only shows my own media.